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Textareas (htmlArea) questions

Hey all,

I'm looking at writing an extension for htmlArea to add syntax highlighting to PHP code dynamically as it's typed or more specifically on every new line. I was wondering if there was a way I could rn a function on every new line, whether they hit enter or it goes to a new line because of overflow. This function would go on and do some work but I won't get into that here.

Well, the php-colorization is a built-in procedure for PHP, so you'd first need to duplicate that with JS. That means keeping a LARGE list of keywords and how they should be colored. Then, you'd have to run a function at each newline to check for keyword or symbol matches and color them appropriately.

I've already got my solution figured out, it's implementing it that's the problem. I'm going to pass the contents to a PHP file in a hidden DIV which will colourise it and put it back in the editable region.